From the present national anxiety an American Equality Party will arise

For me the democratic socialist perspective has - for many years- answered very many political questions: which ideas and partisan agendas serve the American working class ?

Can " class war " energy be directed into a really peaceful and progressive mass movement ? There is no way the capitalist ruling class in America can even help save human civilization-or the living planet.

You can hope and pray for divine intervention. But miracles are always very problematic.

You must see " dangerous Donald Trump " in his ruling class connection. Political power - the power of the American presidency - is always a social relationship. And the Democratic Party is itself entrenched in the ruling class.

Working people must ask : are the foreign and domestic enemies of Republicans and Democrats OUR enemies ?

It is not a matter of seeing EVIL in these people. They just can't or won't rise above narrow privileged class interests - interests that create an enormous amount of preventable human misery: war, economic chaos , poverty , moral decay, crime, corruption, mental illness, existential despair, the pollution of the environment...etc.

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  Given the level of anxiety, fear, and political unrest in the post election weeks in the USA it should be possible for an American Equality Party to emerge - similar in many ways to the British Labor Party - but with more class struggle militancy and ideological boldness.